Always on the leading edge of technology, EFiS was one of the first organizations to use Linux for mission-critical applications in 2004. At the time, the company converted its COBOL-based banking application to run on Linux on System z, as well as IBM AIX*, HP-UNIX* and Sun Solaris. More recently, EFiS migrated more of its application base to Linux. In 2009, for example, it migrated many AIX, HP and Sun application instances to an IBM System z9* Business Class running Linux. This allowed EFiS to streamline its IT environment through consolidation and take further advantage of the power of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on System z solutions. Read the full case study here.

Learn how Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business used Novell Open Enterprise Server running SUSE Linux Enterprise to consolidate servers by 90 percent and cut implementation time for new applications by 50 percent!

The City of Saint Paul was running disparate e-mail platforms that required increasing IT administration as they often experienced downtime. Standardizing on Novell® GroupWise® on SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server created a unified e-mail platform across the organization, reducing hardware costs by 75 percent and achieving 99.9 percent uptime.